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Is communities discovery really that bad, do we just miss enough people, or should people revisit their expectations and go for more general communities? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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Kind of a companion thread to the recent one on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com asking people which community there were missing.

I had a quick look, and most of those seem to be niches that can't be filled until we reach a higher population.

There is still maybe some potential improvement about some less well-known community that other people are interested in and that could some additional activity.

I try to help to make less known communities known with the regular threads on !newcommunities@lemmy.world (now moving to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ), but there is probably only a level of detail we have to stop at with 47k monthly active users.

One example is !jrpg@lemmy.zip, it seems reasonable active, and is probably a better compromise than having each game having its own community.

Similar with !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, or !showsandmovies@lemm.ee. I posted a thread about Ted Lasso a few days ago, it got some nice comments, but probably not enough to have a full fledged dedicated community.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Don't people use the Subscribed feed for their niche communities? So once they are subbed, it's all good?

If the issue is people not knowing about communities, then those posts on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca should help

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule influences this heavily imo

I think it's both. On latin for example i have 120 users (35 are lemmy federate bots) but i'm the only one posting there, despite some posts getting a lot of upvotes or comments.

This can heavily discourage mods and force them to quit which kills the community.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

I'm coming up on 1,000 subscribers, 500 posts, and 1.5+yrs of content creation in my bandes dessinées sublemmy, with myself being responsible for maybe 85-90% of total content creation. Your concerns are real and valid IMO.

Soon I plan to set up a bot to post small, 'drip-like' content every other day, supplementing the off-days with my beefier content, which are generally small reviews and content roundups. I guess my point is that it's good to keep trying different techniques out, asking this and other communities for ideas, and having requisite patience.

Also, I think light-handed advertising across various platforms probably helps. Imgur and Reddit have worked okay so far, but frankly I need someone to help with other social media joints. That's something an active mod could potentially help with...

[–] FundMECFS@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

My reflex moving over was to subscribe to everything I’m interested in and never use all, because I’ve never used it on reddit.

This created a problem where since lemmy’s sorting all basically sort by most popular (except scaled but that sort is problematic for other reasons), I basically only saw the meme and news communities I subscribed to on my feed and the niche stuff never made it.

I know @Aurelius@lemmy.world is working on an algorithmic alternative !quiblr@lemmy.world but it’s not got support on any apps.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I usually use scaled for my subscribed feed and it works decently. Recently was advised to try out "newest comments" sorting for the subscribed feed and I like that even more!

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

have you tried Scaled sort? I use Scaled for my subscribed feed and it does a great job showing new posts in niche communities

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, I have several accounts due to that issue. Comes back to the lack of personal feeds mentioned elsewhere.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not everyone follows that though

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Then I'll keep posting about it everywhere I guess

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Just followed it

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh! Today I learned about community promo. Yeah, I guess we could use awareness raising about the existence of that community. Sounds like an awesome resource.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

I posted it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world, is this were you heard about it?

I'll probably post on !youshouldknow@lemmy.world next week, and probably !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca as well.

Maybe create a meme about it on !fedimemes@feddit.uk too.